Nevada to receive grant money for rural healthcare improvements

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – The state of Nevada shall be one in all 43 states and U.S. territories that can obtain $110 million to enhance healthcare in rural areas.

The grants will go in direction of 208 rural well being care organizations and serve almost 5 million individuals across the nation.

“Entry to fashionable and sustainable well being care infrastructure is crucial to the well being, well-being and prosperity for the tens of millions of people that stay in rural and Tribal communities,” USDA Rural Improvement Beneath Secretary Xochitl Torres Small mentioned. “That’s why the Biden-Harris Administration stays dedicated to creating certain that individuals who want it most, regardless of the place they stay, have entry to high-quality and dependable well being care providers like pressing care, major care and dental care. By way of the Emergency Rural Well being Care Grants I’m asserting at this time, USDA is being a robust companion to individuals in 43 states and Guam.”

These investments will go in direction of serving to construct, renovate, and equipping well being care amenities and clinics in rural areas.

Particularly, it’ll assist well being care suppliers implement telehealth and vitamin help packages, improve staffing to manage COVID-19 vaccines and testing, construct or renovate amenities, and buy medical provides.

The cash may also assist regional partnerships, public our bodies, nonprofits, and tribes deal with regional rural well being care issues.

$9 million for 12 rural well being care organizations may also be included to assist 187,000 in what the Biden administration calls vitality communities, outlined as areas with excessive concentrations of coal-dependent jobs.

Funding for this system comes from the American Rescue Plan, handed by Biden in March 2021.

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